GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

Looking for a professional development opportunity?  This Fall 2012 eNet Colorado is hosting a series of 5 webinars on spatial thinking.  “The goal of Teaching Using Spatial Analysis 101 is to provide confidence, skills, and the spatial perspective necessary to foster spatial analysis in geography, earth and biological sciences, history, mathematics, computer science, and in other disciplines.

It will accomplish this through a series of hands-on activities where participants investigate a series of fascinating issues relevant to the 21st Century, including population, natural hazards, energy, water, current events, sustainable agriculture, and more. These activities will be supplemented by short readings and reflections that will build a community of educators focused on the value of investigating the world through a spatial perspective.”  This promises to be a tremendous opportunity.

Facilitator (Teacher): Bianca Katz – Co-Facilitator Facilitator (Teacher): Joseph Kerski

Begins: 19 September 2012. Duration: 5 weeks. Location: Online. Cost: USD $75

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Bikers are everywhere in Copenhagen. And now the city is building new, high-speed routes into the city that will make it easier to commute, even from the distant suburbs.

The transportation urban planning paradigm in Copenhagen is not exclusively structured around automobiles and the logistics needed for drivers.  Copenhagen has heavily invested in cycling and they are reaping the rewards based on there efforst.  As the Earth-Operators Manual Facebook Page stated, cyclists in Copenhagen daily travel 750,000 miles; enough to go to the moon and back.

See on www.npr.org

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“Jane Jacobs is variously known as the guru of cities, an urban legend—“part analyst, part activist, part prophet.” In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), her influence has been extraordinary—not only on architects, community workers, and planners but also on Nobel Prize–winning economists and ecologists. As one critic recently put it, “Jacobs’s influence confirms that books matter. It isn’t easy to cite another writer who has had a comparable impact in our time.” A couple of years ago, she won the top American award for urban planning, the Vincent Scully Prize. This in itself was unusual, not only because she regularly vilifies planners, but also because with the exception of the Order of Canada and a few other prizes, she typically turns down awards—some thirty honorary degrees, including one from Harvard. Jacobs herself wasn’t interested in finishing university—she went to Columbia for just two years.”

 

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Simple, effective tutorial to explain some of the mechanics to informed twitter useage.

See on kulowiectech.blogspot.fr

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Report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 2011 was a record year for Palestinian displacement.

 

This infographic comes from the group http://visualizingpalestine.org  This corresponds with the UN’s recent statement that Gaza ‘will not be liveable by 2020’ given Israeli policies as reported by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19391809

See on www.aljazeera.com

Via Scoop.it – Geography Education

Explore and vote on the best Google Maps satellite imagery around the world.

Much like sites that you can rate items up or down, you can rate the best aerial photography via Google Earth screen shots.  There are some beautiful images and places to be discovered through this site.  The physical and human landscapes are both intermingled in this fantastic collection of images…be careful, it can be amazingly addictive.  For more from the producer of this site, see: http://paulrademacher.com or follow on twitter @paulrademacher.

Via www.stratocam.com

Some of my personal additions to this gallery include:

1. the Paseo de la Reforma sector of Mexico City,

2. Hamburg, Germany,

3. Venice, Italy,

4. Cape Cod, MA,

5. Drumlin city of Friedrichshafen-Raderach in Southwest Germany,

6. a meteor create lake, Pingualuit Lake in Northern Quebec,

7. the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia,

8. the Great Salt Lake, UT,

9. Citadella, Italy,

10. Mexican Hat, Utah,

11. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (zoom out for a fire-ravaged image)

12. the “Twelve Apostles” in Australia.